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vol VII: Notes

2013

Notes

[Notebook: DB 77 Liberation]

[Sunday 22 December 2013 - Saturday 28 December 2013]

[page 35]

Sunday 22 December 2013

Finding my voice, ie my dual in the community.

A humble Church would be open to instruction.

Monday 23 December 2013
Tuesday 24 December 2013

The Catholic Church, like the elite in general, imagines a puppet world controlled completely from outside. Things are not seen to interact with one another, but all is orchestrated directly by God according to a divine plan. So the elite like to think that they can destroy all social structure and leave people as isolated individuals relating to and controlled by the ruling power alone. They denial the reality of reality, substituting instead invisible human fantasies.

Snowden, the secrets and lies of the Roman Catholic Church.

Einstein on duality: The Word of God, Word and God are duals. Einstein

Wednesday 25 December 2013
Thursday 26 December 2013

[page 36]

Secrecy in plain sight: the RCC has blinded us to the ubiquitous presence of God.

LA Times: 'Pope Francis calls for a better world. AP' Associated Press (AP)

Our biggest mistake of all. (Worshiping a false God).

Our biggest error, (a word which does not imply blame), because, from the point of view of this paper, we have up till now (ish) basically misunderstood our place in the Universe.

A brief history of theology. Now we finally come to mathematical theology and introduce theology to an extension of the space inhabited by physics.

Our theological error is based on a mathematical error about the physical relationship between discrete and continuous quantities. A real continuum is a symmetry, that is a set of states which are practically indistinguishable. Here we do not mean almost indistinguishable, but that in reality there is no practical way to distinguish them.

The idea of the relationship of continuous to discrete is built into quantum mechanics, but there is a discord here. The mathematical treatment of the continuum assumes that it is a set of points each with an individual name or character which we represent by an element of the set of real numbers.

Real numbers are a lovely idea, but here we propose that they are not physically realizable, and therfore not physically realized. So the idea of putting them into correspondence with some physical entity, part of a continuum, makes no

[page 37]

sense.

The explanation of the effectiveness of mathematics requires the correction of two errors, one mathematical and one theological, that have been endemic in Western thought since the first extant records of scientific modelling of the world. The mathematical error is that there is no information in a continuum, the theological that the Universe is not God.

By assuming that a continuum (symmetry) carries no information and that God and the Universe are identical, we can explain why mathematics is so useful .

Multiple notions, open imagination. From a bureaucratic (formal) point of view, human beings are identical particles with unique identities.

Duality: Father / Son and bonding Spirit. [fermion, fermion, boson]

By theology we mean the study of the whole. By mathematics we mean the study of representation [of structures, including the whole].

We conclude with the hypothesis that a shared theology is a fundamental pre-requisite for a peaceful society. The modern wars between elements of Islam look very similar to the religious wars that formed the constitutions of England and Europe.

Intellectually sexy.

[page 38]

Implicit in much physical thought is the notion that certain initial conditions for the Universe were established by a creator or maker.

Do we learn anything about an irreducible whole like a quantum of action by differentiating it into infinitesimals and then integrating it back to a whole?

Friday 27 December 2013
Saturday 28 December 2013

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